Horst - Stolpersteine

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A Stolperstein literally "stumbling stone", metaphorically a "stumbling block" is a sett-size, 10 by 10 centimetres (3.9 in × 3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution.

 

The Stolpersteine project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate individuals at exactly the last place of residency—or, sometimes, work—which was freely chosen by the person before he or she fell victim to Nazi terror, euthanasia, eugenics, was deported to a concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide. As of 29 March 2018, over 67,000 Stolpersteine have been laid in 22 countries, making the Stolpersteine project the world's largest decentralized memorial.

 

The majority of Stolpersteine commemorate Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Others have been placed for Sinti and Romani people (then also called "gypsies"), homosexuals, the physically or mentally disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses, black people, members of the Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the anti-Nazi Resistance, the Christian opposition (both Protestants and Catholics), and Freemasons, along with International Brigade soldiers in the Spanish Civil War, military deserters, conscientious objectors, escape helpers, capitulators, "habitual criminals", looters, and others charged with treason, military disobedience, or undermining the Nazi military, as well as Allied soldiers.

 

List of Stolpersteine in the town of Horst

Herstraat 14: SALOMON WALVIS


Herstraat 14

hier ondergedoken

SALOMON WALVIS

geb. 1916

op de vlucht

voor de nazi's

vals verdacht

door het verzet

gedood 15.7.1944

Grubbenvorst

Herstraat 14

here in hiding

SALOMON WALVIS

born 1916

on the run

for the nazi's

wrongly accused

by the resistance

killed 15.7.1944

Grubbenvorst

Amsterdam, 19 May 1916 – Nederland, 15 July 1944 Reached the age of 28 years.

 

Salomon Walvis was a son of Gabriel Walvis and Rosette Degen. He married in Amsterdam on 14 October 1936 to Henderina Winnik, with whom he had two children: Jacob and Rosette. Henderina and her two children have survived the Holocaust.